Franks Living Soil SIPS

[Waira]

I'd be curious to see what @Waira says

...gotta shove off to the salt mine here just now, but there are some things to keep in mind for sure... KIS Tad here touched on some of them, and in the video two things critical to the topic are missing: water source and an EC/TDS reading (S!) - LOL ... pH alone isn't enough, IMO the answer can't be properly given w/o that vital info...

-- example: pH 8.4... could be super hard high ppm water which is bad, period... Or if it was RO/DI/super low ppm water with a dash of pH up in it, that too could measure at the same pH but with WORLDS of difference in consequences/effects, etc.,...
It's mineral CaCO3 that's the potential villain here.
....BBL

 

[Dab]

...gotta shove off to the salt mine here just now, but there are some things to keep in mind for sure... KIS Tad here touched on some of them, and in the video two things critical to the topic are missing: water source and an EC/TDS reading (S!) - LOL ... pH alone isn't enough, IMO the answer can't be properly given w/o that vital info...

-- example: pH 8.4... could be super hard high ppm water which is bad, period... Or if it was RO/DI/super low ppm water with a dash of pH up in it, that too could measure at the same pH but with WORLDS of difference in consequences/effects, etc.,...
It's mineral CaCO3 that's the potential villain here.
....BBL

Oh boy I'm already in over my head feel like I know all that but then get new or conflicting information and still never know what is "right". I know for me and I think Frank we want to keep it as simple as possible growing TLS with high ppm water least mine is I think Franks is too. Should we use RO pure? ph no ph? or mix some tap to 50-100ppm then ph? I've also done it where I use pure RO water with just a little water soluble gypsum and epsom to bring the RO up to 50-100ppm that way. For that almost seemed the best and easiest cause it also came out to good ph 6.3. But then I worried I was adding stuff to the soil that wasn't needed and hurting my self in the long run.





I know my tap is high ppm high alkalinity high ph 350-400ppm 8.4 ph believe it full of calcium carbonate


Hopefully I didn't send your thread too far off course @Frankthetank

 

[Frankthetank]

Hopefully I didn't send your thread too far off course @Frankthetank

Well….. you all are overly complicating this.

I’m using the ro. I’m not positive the folks above even realize what the original question (not my question) was….

 

[Frankthetank]

 

[Dab]

Well….. you all are overly complicating this.

I’m using the ro. I’m not positive the folks above even realize what the original question (not my question) was….

Yeah I hear ya I'm down with that I thought it was a simple question but it never is I'm just waiting to see what the first week looks like so I can decide what soil to order